Some of us love our football, but we do pay a lot for the privilege of watching it.
Those of us who don't love sport, still have to pay a TV licence . TV coverage of sport is never ending.
I don't like most sport (tennis and athletics excepted) and dislike soaps. But there really is so much available, that I could watch TV 24 hours a day, and still avoid these.
Still, if I want to watch something live, then I might struggle to watch more than a few hours a day. But I don't even watch that much - and still think the licence fee is pretty good value for money.
The TV is there if I choose to watch it, or not. If and when I think there is nothing to watch, then I won't pay for one.
I've no idea. I don't look. If it were popular, then it would be on Freeview, somewhere, sometime.
I can go a whole week or two, and watch just the BBC news once a day, each day - if that.
But there's often stuff on catch-up (which I forget about), and programs I recorded years ago, that I've not yet got round to watching.
But returning to opera - why not contact the BBC (or others) and ask, @Hostafan I've emailed them often, and always had a response. Doesn't mean it's been positive.
@Hostafan1 4 in 10 years is hardly a massive growth in interest. It would be an interesting experiment though to put an opera on TV and then do the market research to see how many people actually watched the whole thing.
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TV coverage of sport is never ending.
Still, if I want to watch something live, then I might struggle to watch more than a few hours a day. But I don't even watch that much - and still think the licence fee is pretty good value for money.
The TV is there if I choose to watch it, or not. If and when I think there is nothing to watch, then I won't pay for one.
I can go a whole week or two, and watch just the BBC news once a day, each day - if that.
But there's often stuff on catch-up (which I forget about), and programs I recorded years ago, that I've not yet got round to watching.
But returning to opera - why not contact the BBC (or others) and ask, @Hostafan
I've emailed them often, and always had a response. Doesn't mean it's been positive.
During the Proms at a guess. If you mean a full opera performance I suspect there isn't enough of an audience to make it a practical proposition.
Nobody invests in a new theatre just for fun.
There IS a market.